Category Archives: Empire

Ernest Shackleton’s Farthest South and Faustian Man’s Quest for Universal Conquest

Last month, the Norwegian Prime Minister travelled to the Earth’s southernmost point to mark the centenary of the conquest of the South Pole, where Roald Amundsen and his team, having spent months travelling on the planet’s coldest and most hostile environment, planted their country’s flag on 14 December 1911. Yet it is the story of [...]